SUPPLEMENT FOR 1890, 



EXPLANATION. 



THE names of horses in black type, arranged in alphabetical order, are those of the 

 winners of the races, and under each horse's name the races won by him appear in 

 chronological order. All races are trotting, mile heats, best three in five, in harness, 

 unless the contrary is shown by the time, stated at the conclusion of the summary, or 

 a different way of going indicated by proper signs. After the name of the winner 

 appears his description, as " b s," for bay stallion, " br g," for brown gelding, u gr m," 

 for gray mare, etc. The following figures, hi heavy type and in parentheses, show the 

 best record of the horse to the close of the year 1890. Then follow the pedigree of the 

 winner, when known ; the name of the nominator, place and date of race, amount of 

 money trotted for, and the name of the horses beaten, in the order of their standing at 

 the close of the race, and last comes the time of the heats. The ordinary signs are used 

 to denote the incidents and casualties of the race. Thus, the character " " in connec- 

 tion with a number in a bracket indicates that the horse whose name that sign follows 

 made a dead heat in accordance with the number, viz. : (3 0) signifies third heat dead. 

 The abbreviation "dr" signifies drawn ; "dis," distance ; " ro," ruled out ; "WO.," 

 walk over, etc. Figures following the name of a beaten horse show that he won the 

 heat or heats corresponding with the number. When the letter " w " follows the name 

 of a horse, it signifies that he went to wagon ; " c " that he went to cart ; and the letter 

 " s " that he went under saddle. In cases where a horse has a record to harness, or 

 wagon, and a faster one under saddle, both are given. When an asterisk (*) is attached 

 to the figures usually denoting a record, it signifies that the time, being over a short 

 track, is a bar and not a record. The summaries preceded by dashes ( ) are subse- 

 quent victories of the horse whose description and record have been given, and in these, 

 if the name of nominator, or of place of trotting, or of both of these, are not given, it 

 signifies that they are identical with those of the race immediately preceding. It some- 

 times happens that a horse winning as a stallion wins later as a gelding, in which case 

 the castration is shown by the change in the description ; but there being no renewal 

 of the name, it will be understood that it is the same horse under changed conditions. 

 In order to keep them of record, losing performances against time are given under the 

 name of the losing horse, as a part of his history, and the fact that he lost is mentioned 

 in the summary. The numerals at the right of the printed pages divide them into 

 blocks of ten lines each, for convenience of reference in the Index to Beaten Horses, 

 and the reader is referred to the explanation preceding that Index. 



